Italy is so many things, and it is also a crowd of people who believe in a better future, more just and clean for the future generations. And this Italy fight for it, arriving there where the institutions still aren’t. So, despite the few incentives for the installation of photovoltaic, Italy is first in the world for the use of solar energy, according to the International Energy Agency report of 2015.
Growth last year was less than other countries, but thanks to the efforts of all these years, now the photovoltaic covers 8% of the entire energy needs of the peninsula.
It is a result achieved also thanks to some of the eco-sustainable accommodations present in the Ecobnb network that have chosen to invest in photovoltaic, such as Ecovillage Torri Superiori in Liguria, Borgata Sagna Rotonda in Piedmont, the house Il Girasole in the Marche, the B&B Il Giardino di Valentina in Sardinia, the Hostel We_Bologna in the capital of Emilia Romagna and many others. But also of those who, not having the possibility to install the PV, opted for the purchase of energy from suppliers that sell 1100% renewable energy, often powered by photovoltaic.
Worldwide there has been a productivity growth in 2015 of 50 GW which has thus resulted in an overall capacity of about 227 GW. China and Japan are the countries that have grown more in the last 12 months but at present China only covers the 1% of its needs with solar energy, far away from the podium throughout Europe: Italy, Greece (7.4%) and Germany (7.1%).
Read the entire report about the world’s use of photovoltaic’s (PDF)
Cover photo by BlackRockSolar via Flickr